Kenneth Nwankwo

Senior DevOps Engineer

Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS)

Platform and DevOps engineering for the national revenue platform: Kubernetes, GitOps delivery, security scanning and observability for tax services used across Nigeria.

Lead DevOps Engineer

AspaceLife Technology

Cloud strategy and platform engineering for a technology company running 17+ microservices on Google Cloud.

• Migrated 30+ microservices from traditional hosting to Google Cloud with Terraform-provisioned GKE and Compute Engine: 99.9% reliability and 35% lower infrastructure cost.
• Runs the production GKE platform with autoscaling node pools, Istio and resource quotas, serving peaks of 100,000+ daily active users.
• Built CI/CD on GitHub Actions and GitLab CI with Semgrep, Trivy and Gitleaks, blocking 50+ critical vulnerabilities before production.
• Operates highly available Solr, Neo4j, Kafka and ScyllaDB on GKE with disruption budgets and automated backups.
• Cut monthly cloud spend by 30% through right-sizing and spot node pools without missing SLAs.

Founder & CEO

NaijaRent · Kordex Solutions Ltd

Rental marketplace for Nigeria: website, iOS and Android apps, and a WhatsApp assistant for finding homes.

• Leads product, engineering and operations; designed and runs the platform end to end.
• Shipped iOS and Android apps through App Store and Google Play review, with a self-hosted CI/CD pipeline.
• Built a WhatsApp bot and MCP server so renters can search listings by chatting, plus automatic listing moderation.

Founder & Principal Engineer

SoundTechWorks

Senior engineering studio for DevOps, platform, AI and software work. Clients hire us for projects, monthly retainers and urgent production fixes.

• Delivers cloud platforms, CI/CD, security assessments, web and mobile products, and AI assistants for clients in Nigeria and abroad.
• Built the studio’s own booking platform on Cloudflare Workers and D1, with branded email, structured data and automated deploys.

DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Damisie Limited

Cloud infrastructure as code, CI/CD and environment strategy for a software platform, from development through staging to production.

Senior Full-Stack & Platform Engineer (Contract)

Trust Based Mobility

Full-stack and platform engineering for an online health-education company: web and mobile apps, APIs, automation and cloud infrastructure.

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)

iRecharge

Cloud infrastructure and delivery-pipeline engagement for a payments and utilities platform.

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Reboot Monkey

Infrastructure for a managed-services provider specialising in bare-metal and hybrid cloud.

• Cut server provisioning from 4 hours to 30 minutes by automating PXE installs with Foreman for 50+ Dell PowerEdge servers.
• Moved workloads from Docker Compose to RKE2 Kubernetes with KubeVirt, running VMs and containers side by side; 60% better utilisation.
• Deployed a 10+ node Ceph cluster (replication factor 3) and GitOps with ArgoCD, reducing deployment errors by 90%.
• Built Prometheus, Grafana and Loki observability with SLO dashboards and Falco runtime security, cutting time to detect by 70%.

Lead DevOps Engineer & CTO Project Lead

Easyspend.cc

Technical strategy and infrastructure for a fintech platform with 100,000+ daily active users.

• Set architecture and infrastructure strategy with the executive team as CTO project lead.
• Built the SiliCash app infrastructure on DigitalOcean with Terraform and launched it on the App Store and Google Play.
• Cut CI/CD cycle time by 70% for React Native and web apps; added disaster recovery, point-in-time database restores and encryption at rest.

DevOps Engineer

Aitech

CI/CD and cloud platforms for 20+ applications.

• Standardised deployments across 20+ applications with GitHub Actions, improving consistency by 50%.
• Built ELK, Prometheus and Grafana monitoring for 70% faster detection and resolution.
• Mentored 5 junior DevOps engineers on Kubernetes, CI/CD and automation.

DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) · via PSIT

Led DevOps for the national tax processing platform: 25+ microservices on on-premises Kubernetes.

• Architected and ran production RKE2 clusters for tax processing, the citizen portal, payments and reporting.
• Delivered all 25+ services through ArgoCD GitOps with environment promotion and fast rollbacks.
• Kept the platform at 99.9% uptime for 50,000+ daily transactions with autoscaling and automated failover.
• Introduced HashiCorp Vault with dynamic credentials and a Semgrep, Gitleaks and Trivy pipeline across every service.

System Administrator

Colenco Consulting Ltd.

IT infrastructure, cloud migration and security operations for a consulting firm.

• Reduced unplanned downtime by 40% with proactive Nagios monitoring.
• Migrated 100+ users to Office 365 with zero data loss; cut successful phishing by 70% with MFA and training.

SecDevOps Specialist

Jonafoon Nig. Ltd.

Security operations and infrastructure support for enterprise clients.

• Reduced mean time to resolution by 30% with ITIL-aligned incident workflows; 95% client satisfaction.
• Ran vulnerability assessments and infrastructure audits to keep clients compliant.